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2016 SESSION
SB 740 Electronic textbooks; use by students.
Introduced by: Scott A. Surovell | all patrons ... notes | add to my profiles
SUMMARY AS PASSED SENATE: (all summaries)
Access to electronic textbooks and adequate connectivity. Prohibits school boards requiring the use of any electronic textbook in any course in grades six through 12 unless the school board adopts a plan to ensure that by July 1, 2019, (i) each student enrolled in such course will have access to a personal computing device capable of supporting such textbooks and (ii) the relevant school has adequate connectivity, which the bill defines as bandwidth of at least one megabit per second per student. The bill permits a local school board to establish a pilot program for the use of electronic textbooks at any secondary school in the local school division, provided that (a) each student at the secondary school has access to a personal computing device capable of supporting such textbooks, (b) each student at the secondary school has access to adequate connectivity, and (c) the secondary school is receiving federal funds pursuant to Title I of the federal Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 or no more than five percent of the students in the local school division or 300 students, whichever is greater, participate in the pilot program.
FULL TEXT
- 01/22/16 Senate: Presented and ordered printed 16100132D pdf | impact statement
- 02/15/16 Senate: Printed as engrossed 16100132D-E pdf
- 02/16/16 Senate: Floor substitute printed 16105573D-S1 (Surovell) pdf | impact statement
AMENDMENTS
HISTORY
- 01/22/16 Senate: Presented and ordered printed 16100132D
- 01/22/16 Senate: Referred to Committee on Education and Health
- 02/01/16 Senate: Assigned Education sub: Public Education
- 02/11/16 Senate: Reported from Education and Health with amendment (13-Y 1-N 1-A)
- 02/12/16 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/15/16 Senate: Read second time
- 02/15/16 Senate: Reading of amendment waived
- 02/15/16 Senate: Committee amendment agreed to
- 02/15/16 Senate: Engrossed by Senate as amended SB740E
- 02/15/16 Senate: Printed as engrossed 16100132D-E
- 02/15/16 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (40-Y 0-N)
- 02/15/16 Senate: Passed by temporarily
- 02/15/16 Senate: Motion to rerefer to committee rejected (17-Y 23-N)
- 02/15/16 Senate: Passed by for the day
- 02/16/16 Senate: Engrossment reconsidered by Senate (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/16 Senate: Committee amendment reconsidered (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/16 Senate: Committee amendment rejected
- 02/16/16 Senate: Reading of substitute waived
- 02/16/16 Senate: Floor substitute printed 16105573D-S1 (Surovell)
- 02/16/16 Senate: Substitute by Senator Surovell agreed to 16105573D-S1
- 02/16/16 Senate: Engrossed by Senate - floor substitute SB740S1
- 02/16/16 Senate: Constitutional reading dispensed (39-Y 0-N)
- 02/16/16 Senate: Passed Senate (25-Y 13-N)
- 02/16/16 Senate: Reconsideration of passage agreed to by Senate (35-Y 3-N 1-A)
- 02/16/16 Senate: Passed Senate (25-Y 14-N)
- 02/18/16 House: Placed on Calendar
- 02/18/16 House: Read first time
- 02/18/16 House: Referred to Committee on Education
- 02/19/16 House: Assigned Education sub: Education Innovation
- 03/01/16 House: Subcommittee recommends reporting with amendment(s) (5-Y 3-N)
- 03/01/16 House: Subcommittee recommends referring to Committee on Appropriations
- 03/02/16 House: Passed by indefinitely in Education by voice vote